FCTA to sanction school principals for students’ low turnout

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has said threatened to sanction principals and school administrators responsible for the low turnout of students in public schools.
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The Secretary of the FCTA Education Secretariat, Dr Danlami Hayyo, dropped the warning when he led the management team of the secretariat for the 2024 second-term resumption visitation and inspection to select schools in the Territory.

Though satisfied with the turnout of students in the schools visited, the Secretary, however, warned that the administration will not take it likely with any school found to record low student turnout, as such development, he said, translates to failure on the part of the school authority.

The Secretary vowed to replace such school administrators saying, “I like to call the attention of the teachers to continue with their dedication to duty, because we’re not going to leave any stone unturned. When we discover a school where teachers are ready but students are not present or the turn out of the students is low, definitely we are going to change the administration of the school. We are going to bring capable hands that can lead.”
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Hayyo stressed that education is a priority of the current administration and so will ensure they protect the sanctity of the sector.

“Lke I said earlier, one of the priorities of the minister is education. We can’t wait until the minister see something bad before we take action, definitely we are going to curb the problem.”

Earlier, the Secretary and his team visited select schools where they expressed satisfaction over the turnout of students and teachers in both public and private schools on the first day of school resumption for second term of the 2023/2024 academic session.
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Some of the schools visited include Government Science and Technical College, GSTC, Area 3, Government Secondary School, Tundun-Wada, Junior Secondary School Wuse Zone 6, Glisten Group of Schools, Jahi.

According to the Secretary, “the turnout for the first day of resumption is encouraging. I expected to see a low attendance rate considering the Christmas and New Year break, since alot of students traveled with their families out of Abuja. But fortunately for us, almost all the students are back and are ready for learning.

“One of the very important parts of our inspection is to identify some challenges and problems of the schools. We have seen, and taken note of all information. We are going to take back to the honorable Minister and like you all know, education is one of the key priority areas of this administration.

“The minister promised that the sector will, given special consideration. That’s why in the 2023 budget, the sum of 13.1 billion naira was approved to be spent on renovations, construction, and provision of chairs and furnitures for schools in FCT which is very encouraging.”
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